Derek Jeter’s cute daughters! The former pro baseball player and his wife Hannah Jeter are loving every moment of being parents to three girls. The athlete began dating the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 2012 and proposed to Hannah three years later. The New Jersey native confirmed their engagement by using the word “fiancé” in a November 2015 Player’s Tribune post. “I had no idea what to expect as a new dog owner. He was a Christmas present last year from my fiancé who has a family of mastiffs,” Derek wrote of his dog at the time. “I’ve never owned a pet in my life.” A source exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the couple’s wedding that “their relationship works because they’re supportive and they’re cute,” adding, “They almost fight never. Derek is madly in love with her. He thinks she’s beautiful, cute and sexy! Derek’s friends are jealous that his fiancée is so beautiful.” Hannah intentionally wanted to keep their relationship private, which the Virgin Island native Maxim explained in March 2015. “I feel like I have to share every other part of my life.” she said at the time. “It’s that one part that’s a bit of a mystery to people, but that’s the way we want it. The only way to protect it is not to talk about it.” The duo married in California in July 2016. “After the ceremony, they walked around holding hands and looking smitten,” an insider told Us after the event. As the couple began expanding their family the following year, the retired MLB player broke the news via Player’s Tribune together. Bella arrived in August 2017, followed by Story in January 2019. River was born in December 2021 after Hannah kept her pregnancy a secret. The model told The Editorialist in November 2019 why she prefers to “slip away” during it. expected and says being on social media has never “felt natural for her.” But a lot of people post their children and husbands. and for me that never will be,” the former Project Runway: Junior presenter told the magazine at the time. “Both my husband and I have been at a point in our careers where we have so much to share. And we can deal with it but if y you love something so much you want to protect it more than anything in the world and to me, that’s my relationship, those are my kids.” Keep scrolling for Derek’s quotes on raising Bella , Story and River to see over the years: